Family of missing Old Bridge man provides dental records after body is found

OLD BRIDGE – The family of Marcin Gadkowski has provided dental records to the Middlesex County medical examiner’s office in an effort to establish whether a body found in New Brunswick Monday is Gadkowski’s.

Initially, the family and a missing persons organization had reported on social media the body was Gadkowski. They later withdrew those statements.

Gadkowski, a 36-year-old father, went missing June 22 after boarding a bus in Old Bridge. He was headed to New Brunswick, where he was to take another bus to Trenton. In Trenton, he was to take a train to Philadelphia, his family said.

On Monday, a train passenger spotted a body lying on municipal property next to the train station in New Brunswick.

“We’re hoping dental identification will either show this is Marcin or rule him out,” said Cynthia Caron, president and founder of LostNMissing, Inc.

Caron worked with Gadkowski’s family to create a Facebook page to help find him.

“Please all, we sincerely apologize for the confusion,” Caron stated in an updated Facebook post. “It has NOT been confirmed that the earthly body is Marcin Gadkowski as we reported earlier. There was tremendous confusion in those messaging us saying it was in fact Marcin. We ask that everyone please keep his family in your prayers during this awful wait.”

Caron said some of Gadkowski’s younger family members heard about the body in New Brunswick and took to social media to report he had been found.

“It escalated into a lot of messages and postings on social media,” Caron said. “There has not been an official identification of his body yet.”